It would be quite helpful to be able to apply a soft credit as a pledge payment.

We have people make pledges or businesses make pledges but when their checks come in (pledge payments) they come from a donor advised fund or an individual will send in a check to apply to their business pledge or a business check comes through for an individual's payment. In turn the soft credit goes into the account of the one that made the pledge and does not get deducted from their pledge payment schedule. When running reports on the status of pledges or campaigns it is very difficult to keep this all straight. It would be helpful if we could apply soft credits to their pledge payments.

I've run into this problem as well. Donors often will have a third party/donor advised fund send a check and it, at least partially, should be used as a pledge payment. Sometimes it is part of a split transaction too. Can't there be some way to assign the soft credit and then click off a pledge if that donor has one?